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ing Young Observers: Maurice J. Clausen. Toronto. Canada; Anna D. White, Lansdowne. Pa, Edward H. Nichols, Camden, N. J,‘ Margaret Walker, Andrews, N, C.: W. C. Scott. Dewey, Ohio; Lewis Gannett. Rochester, Y.: Edmund W. Sinnott, Bridgewater, Mass: Ruth Daniels. West Medway, Mass,

Now it is time to send in the essays on the Birds of June and July. These may, as heretofore, contain general notes on the bird-life of these two months or they may describe only the habits of a single species: but in every instance particular Care should be taken to be deﬁnite and exact, giving (later and prriwlrt Net. for instance. writing "sometime early in June.’ or, "the young were in tile nest about two weeks.”

We now offer a fourth prize of a book or books to the value of two dollars to the Young Observers of fourteen years or under, for the best seven- or eight-hundred—word article on the Birds of August and September.

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What Bird is This?

Fuld 'Ilrrrvlpllnn.4Lt'ngth. win in. Ahnle gtal'ish brawn. Ming: and lilll ilarltrr: below whitish wastir-rl with ztnxish brawn: lower mandible lllhtcl than upper.

NOTE.7Each number of BlRD-LORE will contain a photograph. from specimens in the American Museum of Natural History, of some comparatively littlesknown bird, or bird in obscure plumage, the name of which will be withheld until the succeeding number at the magazine, it being believed that this method of arousing the student's curiosity will result in impressing the bird‘s Characters on his mind far more strongly than if its name were given with the picture.

The species ﬁgured in june is the female Bay-breasted Warbler.